The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-01
ESTABLISHED 1850.
j. II. EsTiLL, Editor and Proprietor,
BOOM OF THE UNIONISTS.
THE NATIONALIST EDITORS FIRE
HOT SHOT.

to be Guarded by Detectives The
Visitors Entertained at Banquet
and Each Makes a Speech-A News
Vender Imprisoned.
DUBLIN, Nov. 30.-The Irish Times Con
servative) claims that the Unionist meeting
last night was an assemblage Of intellect,
courage and popular feeling to protest, not
as a minority, but a substantially equal
portion of the Irish people, against the
policy of the Home Rule party
The Ffeeman'S Journal in its comments
on the meeting says the surroundings
proved that Lord Harrington and Mr..
Goschen were avowed enemies Of Ireland.
Detectives, it says, guarded the two Eng
lishmen as if they were couple of Cars.
The meeting was attended by only those
who had tickets, and. no claim could be made
that it was free expression of public
opinion.
The Dublin ErpresS Conservative says
there never was such meeting before in
Dublin. 1t points out that its supporters in
cuded peers, ecclesiasts, civil dignitaries
and representatives of railway, shipping,
banking aud professional interests
A news vender at Killarney has been
sentenced to a months Imprisonment for
SeluQg copies OIL CHLteL IFetuUu, CONTAINING
reports of meetings of suppressed branches
Of the national league
UNIoNISTS AT A BANQUET
The Unionists' banquet in Leinster Hall
this evening was a brilliant affair Lead
ing merchants and professional men, and a
number of Catholic Unionists were present.
The balconies were crowded with ladies.
Lord Harrington and Mr.. Goschen were
gwen an ovation. The toast to the Queen
4
rose and joined in the singing of the ma
tional anthem, and God bless the Prince Of
Wales" Mr.. Kenny, an eminent
Catholic barrister, in proposing a
toast to the Unionist cause denounced
home rule as an insidious misnomer simply
meaning dismembernent of the empire and
utter ruin of Ireland. The agitation, he
said, had already destroyed Irish trade and
ruined Irish credit, but there were hopeful
symptoms that the people were beginning
10 find out the real tendencies of the agi-
tstors' work.
Mr. Goschen, who responded. said that
the time for anybody being neutral toward
the Separatists had passed. No truce should
he allowed with the party of sedition. These
demonstrations, showing that the most
important part of Ireland was against home
rule, would hell to convince England and
the world that the agitators' claim of repre-
senting Irish sentiment was largely delu-
sive.
Mr. Goschen lauded the landlords for
having rejected bribe as gross as was ever
offered to a great interest by statesman
who ought to have known better. They
had acted nobly, he said, under strong
temptation. The government appre-
\ cates their patriotism. Then they
We're only section of the
Loyalist party in Ireland It was cant
on the part Of the learned professors who
adorned the Gladstonian party to throw dis
credit upon the views of intelligence and
learning and literature of this city 1t was
cant on the part of the educated and wealthy
classes of England to say when their
brethren in Ireland expressed an opin-
ion that their wealth and education could
not count, that the only qualifications for
real prosperity were to have nothing and
know nothing [Cheers and laughter. !
Our opponents, said Mr.. Goschen, ICON
sider minds that are blank better recepta-
cles for their doctrines That is not our
view. We prefer men acquainted with his
tory and its lessons, and are glad to deal
with audiences who care more
for argument than for defamation, who
care more to be informed on the questions
of the day than to be infamed by the preju-
dices of the day. We are satisfied to disap
point those who expected that we came here
sH intame ty or faction"
REPLYING TO AN EDITOR.
ANNl6lll W Iue CIldll6uSe Vi but FTtG-
mans Journal, he invited the reporters of
that paper who were present to
note and report carefully his words.
Never had he said that Mr.. O'Brien de-
served five years penal servitude; the story
was an invention of the Freenlon's Journal
Teportters ,. Laughter and misses. ] He CON
our minds than paying attention to the SEN
Satonal paragraphs i'll the Nationalist press,
which are devised to pre-occupy us, or to
incidents of their ridiculous campaign
against the executors of the law. Such
provocation will not turn us aside from the
duty of promoting the prosperity of that
ireland whose fortunes and fate are as dear
to us as any other part of the kingdom"
referring to the charge that the govern
ment had broken its pledges concerning the
granting Of local government to Ireland, he
sad You, who live here and who know
what passes at national and municipal
gatherings, will be able to furnish an an
swer. l consider that pledge given to a
sane man will not hold when the man has
become a lunatic l should be too glad to
see established in Ireland real rival to the
goitlcal influence of the central league in
Dublin, but it is impossible while
municipal privileges are utilized for the pur
poses OF revolution and partisan home rule
blas alone is at the bottom of municipal
local government in Ireland. 81 long
'hat continues the imperial party cannot
assist In creating vantage ground for
operations against the loyalist inhabitants,
put when coercion is no longer put upon
local opinion we shall be ready to redeem
our pledges"
In conclusion, he entreated the audience
70 remember that though they had to bear
The brunt, the forces behind them were
stronger than those in front, and that if
they stood firm they would be certain to
come out victorious.
LORD HAETINGToN's SPEECH
Lord Harrington, rising after midnight
10 reply to the toast to the President of the
Onlon, said that the FreeBlan's Journal in
clNcising him said he showed no emotion
upon his reception. He did not know what
inc F1eemons Journal expected. He could
only say that if he possessed the eloQuence
OF the greatest of Irish orators it would not
Ssufhce to express the warmth of gratitude
ne felt for the welcome accorded him. In
ms treatment Of the local government ques-
uon Lord harrington used much the same
arguments as had Mr.. Goschen. He said that
great as was the temptation to rely upon
Iorce and exceptional laws solely for the
maintenance of the union, the sooner the
Gnlonists found themselves in position to
ueal ON terms Of perfect equality with the
PEOPLE Of Ireland, as compared with those